The Weekly HoN Report is a brief, straightforward review to help you catch up on the major competitive matches that happened in the past week.
This week, we saw Trademark eSports' new lineup in the second semifinals match of the Lions Quality HoN Cup, as well as the finals between North American teams Team EZ and compLexity Gaming. Also played was the first semifinals match in the Twitch TV HoN Challenge.
Twitch TV HoN Challenge
Team EZ vs. 
Team RoyaltyFinal Score: EZ 2, TmRy 0
Game 1
| Match ID: 61823517 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team EZ | Team Royalty | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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TmRy nearly killed Kongor at Level 1, but backed off when they were scouted by EZ's courier. EZ had early control in every lane, and the first huge swing came when Corrupted Disciple got a Quad Kill in a 5v4 battle. TmRy struggled to play from behind, and the game dragged on far longer than it should have.
Winner: Team EZ
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| Match ID: 61830246 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team Royalty | Team EZ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Again, EZ took the initiative to fight together as a team, but TmRy at least showed some hope with Zephyr farming well. EZ kept the pressure on and soon had a 15-5 kill lead. Zephyr's gold and experience advantage soon ran out, and Team EZ had another dominating win.
Winner: Team EZ
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Lions Quality HoN Cup
Trademark eSports vs. compLexity GamingFinal Score: tdM 0, coL 2
Game 1
| Match ID: 62322252 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| compLexity Gaming | Trademark eSports | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Trademark eSports ran a dual-lane mid with two solo lanes and a jungler; coL reacted with a 2-2-1 setup. Zephyr's 2v1 lane allowed him to shoot way ahead in farm. A critical fight happened at Kongor that resulted in a Valkyrie Hat Trick. Trademark used two buybacks to hurry back and steal Kongor and the Token, but, in the end, they were vastly outcarried by Zephyr with 500+ G/M and conceded to coL in what was a short first game.
Winner: compLexity Gaming
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| Match ID: 62329292 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trademark eSports | compLexity Gaming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Trademark came out aggressive in Game 2 with their roaming Hammerstorm and Andromeda and won two of the lanes solidly. The action was back-and-forth with tdM holding on to a very slight lead. While tdM's farm was split between their three semi-carries, coL was all in on Valkyrie, the top farmer in the game. Trademark could only defend for so long and tried to push back after losing two sets of raxes, but coL's Valkyrie had 350+ damage at that point and ended the game in style with an Annihilation.
Winner: compLexity Gaming
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Team EZ vs. compLexity GamingFinal Score: EZ 1, coL 2
Game 1
| Match ID: 62480174 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team EZ | compLexity Gaming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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EZ's Parasite started in the Hellbourne jungle, ganking early on and putting EZ ahead in kills. They continued to press their lead and were up five towers to none. Some devastating ultimates were landed for both sides, but EZ's gold lead was too much and coL could not stop their push.
Winner: Team EZ
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| Match ID: 62491793 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| compLexity Gaming | Team EZ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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CompLexity thwarted most of EZ's early gank attempts, having double their amount of kills the whole game. EZ's saving grace was their powerful ultimates, but coL had the better initiations and almost always got the jump on them. Legionnaire with Level 5 Codex and Magmus with Mock of Brilliance were very telling of how far ahead coL was at the end.
Winner: compLexity Gaming
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| Match ID: 62501879 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team EZ | compLexity Gaming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wildsoul and Parasite moved around between both jungles, causing some awkward chaos at the start of the game, but neither team was ganking very successfully. After a few teamfights, coL began amassing a lead which turned into a landslide, getting eight straight kills without suffering a single death. EZ could not compete with coL's three farmed carries and conceded. Sadly, the highlights of this game were Master of Arms stealing a Kongor kill and Magmus being killed outside of the map where only Malphas and Valkyrie's arrows could reach him.
Winner: compLexity Gaming
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Coming up: Twitch TV HoN Challenge Semifinals & Finals, EMS Season IX Groupstage, NASL preseason showmatches, DEVASTATION 2011.
